They best way to get around Manhattan and the surrounding areas might have to be the Subway. It may not have the prettiest view but it is cheaper than a cab and sometimes it can be much quicker. The stations are located all over the New York boroughs which include Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Most of the subways stations and serves are open and running twenty four hours a day. This is rather unusual to have twenty four hours service most cities shut service down for a chunk of time at night. Each year the subway seems to break the previous record for its use. There is a direct relationship between higher gas prices and subway use. The winter months the subway gets more use as the gas prices go up. This great mode of transportation was first demonstrated in Manhattan by Alfred Ely Beach in 1869. The Beach Pneumatic Transit went 312 feet under Broadway in Lower Manhattan. The project didn’t really take off for financial as well a political reasons so the it was demolished. Since then there have been many builds that have slowly been added on to and up dated to create what passengers know of today. There are tunnels under the water going Brooklyn and Queens which makes the system really large and complex these days. There is a station near most of the Manhattan hotels like this that will get you to the theatres on Broadway like the Gershwin Theatre and to the best museums like Metropolitan Museum of Art . One can get on in a dense skyscraper corner and end up along the beautiful Central Park for an afternoon picnic or simple walk. Shoppers may want to get to the stores on a train and catch the cab back to the hotel with all they will all the bags they will have to carry. So catch the subway when you can and save that extra cash for a fantastic martini at cocktail hour.
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